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Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress who was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many genres, and has won BAFTA and Golden Globe awards.
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Jamie Lee Curtis - news / articles
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Jamie Lee Curtis selling Halloween memorabilia for charity -
2 November 2012
-Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is auctioning off items from the set of her classic horror movie Halloween to raise money for the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.-The True Lies star, who made her movie debut in the 1978 film, is donating a handful of memorabilia, including the
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Jamie Lee impersonated Tony Curtis during funeral speech -
24 October 2010
-Jamie Lee Curtis lightened the mood as she honoured her late father Tony Curtis at his memorial service earlier this month (Oct10) by imitating his famous deep voice.-
-The Some Like It Hot star passed away on 29 September (10) after suffering a cardiac arrest and more t
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Schwarzenegger to honour True Lies co-star Curtis -
17 April 2009
-Arnold Schwarzenegger will recognise the charitable contributions of his close friend and True Lies co-star Jamie Lee Curtis when he presents her with an award in May (09).-
-The actor-turned-California governor played Curtis' secret agent husband in the 1994 action movi
Jamie Lee Curtis - what members say
review by A customer from stamford
Forever Young 31 January 2011
review by mdridley from North Yorkshire, England
True Lies 10 December 2007
review by danieljparsons from Ashford
An acceptable sequel 11 May 2010
Jamie Lee Curtis - filmography
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You Again
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director: Andy Fickman
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You Again, the non-stop laugh fest, is pure fun that features an all-star cast with comedy pedigrees - including Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver and the always outrageous Betty White. For Marnie (Bell), high school was a horror movie, and her brother's wedding is the sequel when ..read more »
 
63%
from 8,632 members
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Piper Perabo, Manolo Cardona, Eugenio Derbez
Director: Raja Gosnell
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Chloe, a diamond-clad, bootie wearing Beverly Hills Chihuahua enjoys her luxurious lifestyle so much, she hardly notices Papi, a hilarious Chihuahua who happens to be crazy for Chloe. But when the most pampered pooch gets lost in Mexico with only a street-wise German Shepherd to help her find her ..read more »
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from 6,333 members
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Going to Pieces - The Rise and Fall of t...
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Malek Akkad, John Carpenter, Lilyan Chauvin
Director: Jeff McQueen
Certificate: 
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A documentary which explores the history of that well loved B-movie sub-genre - the slasher film. Peaking in the '80s, the slasher film is no less enjoyed today, only perhaps as a more guilty pleasure and by a less prominent group of fans. These closet gorehounds continue, nonetheless, to delight ..read more »
60%
from 2,048 members
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Christmas With The Kranks
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Julie Gonzalo, Felicity Huffman
Director: Joe Roth
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After faithfully and happily celebrating Christmas their entire lives, and with their daughter Blair in Peru to serve a stint in the Peace Corps, Luther and Nora Krank are facing the prospect of a very lonely holiday. One blustery Chicago night, Luther glances longingly at an alluring poster in a ..read more »
55%
from 10,543 members
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Freaky Friday
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Christin
Director: Mark Waters
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A 2003 remake of the 1977 teen fantasy comedy. Disgruntled teen Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) and her uptight mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) wake up one morning to find that they are trapped in each other's bodies. In order to reclaim their own body, they must come to a greater understanding of one ..read more »
63%
from 22,845 members
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The Tailor of Panama
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine McCormack
Director: John Boorman
Certificate: 
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Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush) is a London tailor working in Panama, offering a high-quality service to many of the richest and most powerful families in the country. One day he is approached by British secret agent Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan) and asked to supply information on some of his ..read more »
56%
from 2,322 members
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Virus
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Joanna Pacula
Director: John Bruno
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During a savage typhoon, the crew of a salvage tug discover a seemingly deserted Russian military vessel. Everton (Donald Sutherland), the tug's captain, and Kit (Jamie Lee Curtis), his navigator, manage to restore the power, only to discover a surviving scientist who begs them to turn the power ..read more »
53%
from 3,340 members
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Nicholas' Gift
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Gene Wexler, Alan Bates
Director: Robert Markowitz
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A family holiday in Sicily turns into a nightmare when seven-year-old Nicholas is shot. The parents (Jamie Lee Curtis and Alan Bates), keeping vigil at their dying son's bedside, are asked to make an almost impossible decision: to sanction the use of Nicholas' organs so that other children may be ..read more »
59%
from 141 members
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Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Hann-Byrd, Josh Hartnett
Director: Steve Miner
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
This seventh entry in the 'Halloween' series is also the first since 'Halloween 2' to feature Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the sister and victim of psychopath Michael Myers. Apparently killed in a car crash, Laurie in fact faked her death so that she could adopt a new identity. She is now Keri ..read more »
60%
from 5,001 members
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Fierce Creatures
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ronnie Corbett, John Cleese
Director: Robert Young, Fred Schepisi
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When media baron Rod McCain (Kevin Kline) buys Marwood Zoo in England, he sends over his son Vince (also Kline) and the sexy Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis) to ensure that it turns over a 20% profit. The zoo is being run by McCain employee Rollo Lee (John Cleese), who has instigated a policy that ..read more »
59%
from 4,763 members
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True Lies
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton
Director: James Cameron
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Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of entertainment. Producer James Cameron wrote and directed the film. Henry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic computer salesman ..read more »
67%
from 27,651 members
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Forever Young
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Joe Morton
Director: Steve Miner
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In the 1940s a pilot (Mel Gibson), overcome with grief when his girlfriend goes into a coma, agrees to be cryogenically frozen in an experiment. He is forgotten about however, and is only woken by chance in 1992, where he has to struggle to adjust to a radically different world, while staying one ..read more »
60%
from 7,920 members
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Blue Steel
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
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Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room, Megan decides to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (Tom Sizemore in a small role) is holding ..read more »
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from 1,395 member
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A Fish Called Wanda
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Kevin Kline
Director: Charles Crichton
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Archie Leach (John Cleese, who also provides the script) is a repressed English barrister charged with defending gangster George (Tom Georgeson), who has just pulled off a multi-million jewel heist with the aid of the beautiful Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis), her psychotic 'brother' Otto (Kevin Kline) ..read more »
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from 24,738 members
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Perfect
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Laraine Newman, John Travolta
Director: James Bridges
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John Travolta stars as Adam Lawrence, a Rolling Stone reporter who runs into trouble while researching two separate articles. The first involves a businessman dealing in cocaine, while the second, an expose of health clubs, brings him into intimate contact with aerobics instructor Jessie (Jamie Lee ..read more »
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from 497 members
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Love Letters
(1984)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bonnie Bartlett
Director: Amy Holden Jones
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A story of love and obsession. A young radio personality who, after her mother dies, discovers she had been having a love affair for 15 years. Now she finds herself recreating her mother's romance by getting involved with a married man.
44%
from 17 members
Currently unavailable
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Grandview U.S.A.
(1984)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Patrick Swayze, C Thomas Howell
Director: Randal Kleiser
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Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" ..read more »
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from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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Trading Places
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Don Ameche, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott
Director: John Landis
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Bored, millionaire brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) make a wager on whether two people from opposite ends of the social spectrum can adjust successfully if they trade places. To this end, they engineer the rise of streetwise tramp Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) ..read more »
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from 21,916 members
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Halloween 2
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Dana Carvey, Jeffrey Kramer
Director: Rick Rosenthal
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The first sequel to John Carpenter's seminal horror film. It is still Halloween night 1978 and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is in hospital recovering from Michael Myers' near-fatal attack upon her. She now believes Myers to be dead, but somehow he comes back from the grave and the mayhem begins ..read more »
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from 4,386 members
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Road Games
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Stacy Keach
Director: Richard Franklin
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Hollywood's Stacy Keach stars in Australia's Road Games. Keach is a truck driver who takes the law in his own hands to capture a serial killer. When the police fail to nab the murderer of hitchhikers, Keach takes to the road, conducting his own search. En route, he picks up hitcher Jamie Lee Curtis-..read more »
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from 307 members
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Terror Train
(1980)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
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Film editor, Roger Spottiswoode's directorial debut is a slasher-movie that takes place on a train which a college fraternity have chartered to host a New Year's fancy dress party. However, an ex-fraternity member who has a score to settle has other ideas and the students are trapped on the train ..read more »
43%
from 615 members
Currently unavailable
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Prom Night
(1980)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Anne-Marie Martin, Leslie Nielsen
Director: Paul Lynch
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A masked axeman stalks the corridors of a high school, terrorising Jamie Lee Curtis, in this stalk-and-slash horror. It all happens on the anniversary of the accidental death of a young girl by four kids who have kept their guilty secret to themselves. But now the man wrongly imprisoned for the ..read more »
48%
from 434 members
Not available for rental
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The Fog - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook
Director: John Carpenter
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100 years ago at Antonio Bay, California, a ship was wrecked due to a false beaconlight, enveloped by a sinister fog. The ship's occupants return to punish the descendants of those responsible for their deaths - their arrival heralded by the fog inexorably rolling into Antonio Bay once again.
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from 874 members
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The Fog
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook
Director: John Carpenter
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100 years ago at Antonio Bay, California, a ship was wrecked due to a false beaconlight, enveloped by a sinister fog. The ship's occupants return to punish the descendants of those responsible for their deaths - their arrival heralded by the fog inexorably rolling into Antonio Bay once again.
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from 9,727 members
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Halloween
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles
Director: John Carpenter
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John Carpenter's highly influential modern horror/suspense film set the trend for two decades of re-makes and sequels. Six-year-old Michael Myers is confined to an insane asylum after stabbing his sexually active teenage sister to death on Halloween night 1963. Exactly fifteen years later Michael ..read more »
70%
from 13,460 members
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Halloween - Blu-ray
(1978)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles
Director: John Carpenter
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John Carpenter's highly influential modern horror/suspense film set the trend for two decades of re-makes and sequels. Six-year-old Michael Myers is confined to an insane asylum after stabbing his sexually active teenage sister to death on Halloween night 1963. Exactly fifteen years later Michael ..read more »
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from 1,355 member
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Jamie Lee Curtis facts
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...on at his best and sound perfomance from Eliijah Wood. Good old-fashioned weepy.Jamie Lee Curtis was brilliant too....
